Learn a lot about Refinder
Dear users of Refinder,
In the last month, we had a lot of time to celebrate the holidays and to document Refinder. Many new features were added to Refinder to help you collaborate with your coworkers and team members. In this newsletter its all about learning the new things. You can also read the newsletter online at
http://www.getrefinder.com/about/content/learn-lot-about-refinder-0
Learn a lot about Refinder
You will be delighted to read that Franz Jachim and Bernhard Schandl have added illustrated articles guiding you through Refinder usage like never before.
- Getting your account setup right - Part 1. Maybe it has been a while since you dealt the last time with your Refinder account settings, read everything you can do with your account.
- Getting your account setup right - Part 2. The optional connector of Refinder to Microsoft Outlook to share data directly from your desktop.
- Getting your account setup right - Part 3. Online Services and Recommender Services, which offer you powerful tools to connect Refinder with external content sources.
- Content curation strategies in Refinder: Relating. In this post, we are talking about relating Things, one of the fundamental techniques and prerequisite to the mastering of large content inventories.
- Content curation strategies in Refinder: Filtering. A platform to collect and manage large inventories of information is only as good as its filtering tools. Things, collections, and search results can be filtered.
- The red flag means "There is news for you". The notification system of Refinder keeps you up to date.
- Refinder deployment options. SaaS gets you started right away very cost-efficiently. We also offer on-site installations on request.
A quite recent addition to the user interface is the revamped filtering system, which brings a lot of the features together:
Now a total of 19 articles about using Refinder are available, and many more are in the pipeline.
Use Refinder in your Organization - open for Pilot Customers
Are you in the D/A/CH region and looking for an intelligent collaboration tool for your organization? We want to get in touch with you and adapt Refinder to your needs. Contact us at info@gnowsis.com to be a pilot customer and get the most out of Refinder. Read more here:
http://www.gnowsis.com/about/content/pilotkunden-dach
If you have heard of someone who is looking for a collaboration and communication tool - help them by forwarding this mail.
Coming up in 2012
We expect some trends to come up in 2012, read the full post to learn about them.
- Alan Lepofksy starts with a shocker to say: 2012 will be the year employees start hating social software. He also states: "I believe in 2012 we will see a lot of progress made in filtering and managing streams."
- We also want to point you to the always brilliant Dion Hinchcliffe, who springs for six big ideas "How Digital Business Will Evolve in 2012".
For Refinder we are planning the following features (read the full post):
- Automatically enrich the data, connect it to information, allow you to filter automatically and efficiently.
- Make Refinder even more smooth to use by adding clever collaboration features. Gamifiaction is the message.
- Make more things come together in Refinder by adding more integrations.
More News about Refinder...
Refinder – Besser und Schöner als Sharepoint
By Mark Buzinkay, MB Informationsdesign Blog, 17.1.2012
http://www.buzinkay.net/blog-de/2012/01/refinder-besser-und-schoner-als-sharepoint/
Intelligente Social Software: Was kann schöner sein als Emails?
By Leo Sauermann, APA IT-Press Gastbeitrag, 16.1.2012
http://www.it-press.at/kommentar/CMS1326384463781